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Archery Hunting Photos


harvey lee

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Wow, that is a lengthy drop-tine. Nice deer everybody.

Here is my first bow deer, a doe taken in Itasca county in late October. Shot at 30-35 yards over an alfalfa field at last light. She jumped the string a bit and I hit her high in the back, but bled out very quickly and within 100 yards.

No trophy, but will hit the pan just right.

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StCroix, great droptine! Looks like a beast of a deer. You get a weight on that bad boy?

Lunker, congrats on your first bow kill! What a rush huh?

Lot's of great deer here...congrats to all.

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Ever think it's just your year? We were rifle hunting last Friday as a party & one person shot at a deer. Of all the people to get a big one it came by me, after I'd already shot a big one the previous Friday with my bow. Nobody really minded giving up their tag for this one though. Not a monster, but too nice for me to pass up. It would have been my biggest ever, except for last week, though it's a totally different type of rack. This has a full 18" spread. A main frame 9 with about a 1" sticker on the brow tine of his 5 side. Decided to put him on the wall too, kind of an expensive year, but who's complaining...

This is the kill site photo:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...7_8260618_n.jpg

This is where we were going to load him up:

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...5_1303020_n.jpg

Hope this is okay, gives a better view of his width:

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...8_6860249_n.jpg

Don't know what he weighed, we were guessing in the 180-190 range. A big deer for sure, but not gigantic.

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Thanks, here's a couple of better pics of my first buck for comparison:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...9_3720973_n.jpg

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-...3_7920939_n.jpg

Anybody got a good idea of what my bucks will score. This one has 4 tines all about 10", with a 16" spread & a lot of mass.

The other buck doesn't have as much mass, his tines are 6-7"s, but he's 18" wide.

The bodies of the two deer were very similar.

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